Verney Junction is a hamlet in the parish of Middle Claydon in north Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the route of the former Varsity Line. , the line is disused but is scheduled to be reopened by about 2025 as part of the East West Rail project.Chancellor accepts East West Rail targets and strengthens plans with extra cash, Rail Technology Magazine, 22.11.2017Transport Secretary officially launches East West Railway Company at Bletchley Park East West Rail, 22 November 2017
The stone cottages that make up the hamlet were largely constructed to provide houses for workers on the railway in the early Victorian era. The hamlet is named after the railway junction around which it grew. The new village included a cricket ground for the railway workers.
The original junction here was established (without a station) by the Buckinghamshire Railway, which planned a Bletchley Banbury route (subsequently the 'Banbury to Verney Junction Branch Line') and a Bletchley Oxford route. The section was completed in May 1850 and the section from here to was completed in October of the same year. Verney Junction railway station was added when the Metropolitan Railway was extended here (from Baker Street).
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